The European Union at an Inflection Point

(Dis)integrating or the New Normal?

Alasdair Young

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780367595302
• eBook ISBN: 9781351781299
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The cutting-edge contributions to this book analyse different facets of the European Union (EU): closer integration among the member states, policymaking within a 'normal' political system, and the implications of European integration for its member states. This book also considers whether the challenges currently confronting the EU – the lingering Eurozone debt crises, the migrant/refugee crisis, the British decision to leave the EU, and terrorist attacks in Belgium, France and Germany – mark an inflection point for the Union and for the study of the EU. For the first time, 'less Europe', rather than closer integration, has emerged as a serious option in response to crisis. This possibility reignites questions of (dis)integration and calls into question the assumption of the EU as a 'normal' political system. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 An inflection point in European Union studies?
• 2 Mapping European law
• 3 Free movement and EU citizenship: a virtuous circle?
• 4 Policy leadership and re-election in the European Parliament
• 5 Does the European Union have a reverse gear? Policy dismantling in a hyperconsensual polity
• 6 Coming full circle? Differential empowerment in Croatia’s EU accession process
• 7 Winning the battle or losing the war: the impact of European integration on labour market institutions in Germany and Denmark
• 8 The minimum wage in Germany: what brought the state in?
• Index